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165: Declutter Your Digital Life for Instant Mental Clarity

Cindy Gordon Season 3 Episode 165

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We organize our desks and clean our homes, but what about our digital lives?

In today’s Thrive in 5, I’ll show you how to declutter your inbox, desktop, and apps to instantly reduce decision fatigue and get your focus back. If your screens feel messy and overwhelming, this simple reset will make a huge difference.

What we cover:

  • How digital mess creates invisible stress
  • The “Today Only” inbox system
  • Desktop + downloads cleanup in under 5 minutes
  • How to group and hide apps to reclaim your mental space

🎯 You don’t have to clean everything at once. You just have to start.

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Digital Clutter can sneak up on us and drain more energy than we realize. In this episode of Thrive In Five, I'll walk you through how to organize your inbox files and apps so you can focus faster and feel more in control every time you open your device. Let's talk about something that's easy to ignore, but massively impacts your focus. It's digital clutter. We clean our homes, we organize our desks, but what about the place we spend most of our workday, our phones, inboxes, desktops, tabs, apps, when those digital spaces are messy, it creates just as much overwhelm as physical clutter. And the worst part, you may not even realize how much it's slowing you down. So today I want to give you a few quick ways to declutter your digital life because every click, scroll, and search should move you forward and not steal your energy. First start with your inbox. If your email is chaos, your brain is low key on edge all day long. Unsubscribe from things you don't read. Use folders and labels for things you do need. Set aside 10 minutes every morning or evening. Just for email triage. Here's a bonus tip for you. Create a today only folder and move anything urgent into it so you can actually focus. Instead of drowning in 1,394 messages, the next step is to declutter your desk, desktop and downloads. You know that feeling when you open your laptop and you see 37 random files everywhere? Yeah. That is not helping your mental clarity, so take five minutes. To delete, rename or move anything that you don't need this week, use folders like archive or to sort or active projects to create a system that works for you. The next thing to do is to audit your apps. If your phone is your second brain, make sure it's not clogged up. Delete apps you don't use. Move distracting ones off your home screen. Better yet, use folders labeled by function like create focus, quick access, or occasional, even small changes like this can remove friction and increase flow. This works because your brain is processing decisions. Constantly. Every little distraction from a cluttered screen to a messy inbox adds invisible stress. And when you clean up your digital life, you reduce decision fatigue, feel more in control, and create space for what matters. If you wanna implement this immediately, here are your action steps today. Unsubscribe from five emails that you never open, clear your desktop or downloads folder for a fresh workspace, delete or group unused phone apps to reduce distractions. You don't need to organize everything in one sitting. Just start where you are. A few focus minutes today can completely change how you feel tomorrow. You've got this.